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Constructing ontological insecurity : the insecuritization of Britain's Muslims
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Croft, Stuart (2012) Constructing ontological insecurity : the insecuritization of Britain's Muslims. Contemporary Security Policy, Vol.33 (No.2). pp. 219-235. doi:10.1080/13523260.2012.693776 ISSN 1352-3260.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2012.693776
Abstract
The development of ontological security studies, for example by Mitzen, Steele, and Berenskoetter and Giegerich, has been an important innovation in the field. However, by focusing on the level of the state rather than that of the individual, this new tradition is somewhat different from the intellectual origins of ontological security in sociology and psychology. Drawing on those disciplines, I argue that the key focus should be on the understandings of individuals about their own security, intersubjectively constructed. Ontological security can be understood in terms of the need to construct biographical continuity, to construct a web of trust relations, to act in accordance with self-integrity, and to struggle against ontological insecurity, or dread, in Kierkegaard's sense. I then take and apply this framework to understand the process by which British Muslims have become insecuritized (understood as a term through which dominant power can decide who should be protected and who should be designated as those to be controlled, objectified, and feared) in the period since 9/11.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Contemporary Security Policy | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1352-3260 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.33 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 219-235 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13523260.2012.693776 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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